... ompliance Act – FATCA. It required foreign banks to share details about US clients. A few years later the OECD developed the Common Reporting Standard for the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... such, any act to portray the seven cops involved in the assault case as martyrs or any effort to raise money as a compensation for them and their families would amount to an endorsement of their crimi ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... ibing his act as being akin to "looting a burning house". The story was first broken by Guangdong Radio and Television Station, which said the incident happened on Thursday last week. According to the ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-21
After he had convicted seven police officers of assault on pro-democracy activist Ken Tsang last week, district court judge David Dufton immediately came under fire from pro-Beijing loyalists and beca ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
... gine the tactics will alter the public's perceptions of the two main candidates and lead to a spurt in support for Lam. Cheung's comments will, in fact, only serve to escalate the deep-rooted conflict ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... alculated act of removing a threat to his rule.” This came as Malaysian police detained a female suspect in the killing. The woman was holding Vietnam travel papers, Reuters reports. Police also said ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-16
... Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the US, but Dewey felt he had to recognize their service. Dewey had acquired two merchant coal supply ships, the Nanshan and Zafiro, in Hong Kon ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... olitical factions, encouraged in part by a pro-march ad campaign by Televisa, the country's dominant broadcaster. In the Mexican capital, two separate marches were set to converge on the iconic Angel ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... nments to act on the problem. Since the start of the year Vancouver has unveiled a set of measures to discourage foreign property buyers. The local government has imposed a 1 percent tax on homes tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
... nch legal action himself against Chu, the lawyers warned. In the letter addressed to Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, the legal representatives said their client, a young man who has had a clean rec ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
Police in Jiyuan city in Henan province are used to all sorts of surprises but a busload of characters from a famous Chinese opera was way over the top. Still, the unexpected discovery did not prevent ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-09
... t. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/CG ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-08
... balancing act of trying to contain asset bubbles without triggering a liquidity crunch, the Wall Street Journal reports. China's forex regulator played down significance of the reserves falling below ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-08
... list. In fact, he usually took the 50th spot, or even lower, in class standing. His classmates at Diocesan included HKU law professor Benny Tai, the brains behind the 2014 Occupy Movement, and incumbe ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-07
... he end of Act 1. David Walker’s designs are lavish. This classic is about an innocent peasant girl, Giselle, who loves dancing. Albrecht is a noble prince who disguises himself as a villager to seduce ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-03
... WKCD, an act which is likely to result in cost-overruns, corruption, inefficiency, and transfer of benefits to big businesses. The Legco approved a one-off HK$21.6 billion back in 2008 for constructi ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-27
... e UK will act as "one of the strongest and most forceful advocates for business, free markets and free trade anywhere around the globe,” a view that is at odds with Trump’s key platforms, the Journal ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-27
... nited and act together, they will be a force that even Beijing will not be able to ignore. Now, are there really no other feasible choices apart from Tsang who can bring about change? Of course not! L ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-25
... c Ma will act as Labour and Welfare and Development Secretaries, respectively. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/RC ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-16
... able Care Act (ACA, also known as "Obamacare"). Despite Republicans' subsequent steps to weaken Dodd-Frank and the ACA, both reforms did much more good than most people realize. Dodd-Frank helped make ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-16
